Brad,
Compared to the ISS and even FalconSat-3, NO-84's digipeater is a weaker signal. It transmits on 145.825 MHz at only 350mw:
NO-84 can be tough to hear, and sometimes packets you can hear won't be decoded by radios/TNCs/software. With either of my Kenwood HTs (TH-D72, TH-D74) and Elk log periodic, I can adjust my antenna so I can do a good job working those passes. It worked well during Field Day, as long as I paid attention to the orientation of my antenna (a bit of twisting initially, then no problems for the rest of those passes).
73!
Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK http://www.wd9ewk.net/ Twitter: @WD9EWK or http://twitter.com/WD9EWK
On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 6:39 PM, Mr B r a d via AMSAT-BB [email protected] wrote:
I have played with no-84 psat digi , i seem to hit it sometimes but really hard to hear it. and NEVER decode my packets repeated...seems like it digi's so fast i dont recover fast enough to hear them,,, perhaps ssb 2m preamp relay delay is a factor? do i need to hard wire the preamp relay to the rig ( ts2000) to over this delay ?thxbrad ko6kL